1 [C] ~ (on sth) a thing that limits or restricts sth, or your freedom to do sth
SYNRESTRICTION:
constraints of time / money / space * financial / economic / legal / political constraints * This decision will impose serious constraints on all schools. * Magistrates are under a constraint not to send young people to prison.
2 [U] strict control over the way that you behave or are allowed to behave:
At last we could relax and talk without constraint.
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